Active and Sterile Neutrino Emission and SN1987A Pulsar Velocity

TL;DR

This paper estimates pulsar velocities resulting from neutrino emissions during supernovae, using SN1987A data to connect neutrino energies, temperature, and pulsar motion, highlighting the roles of active and sterile neutrinos.

Contribution

It provides a novel estimation of pulsar velocities based on neutrino emission models and SN1987A data, considering both active and sterile neutrinos with large mixing angles.

Findings

Estimated pulsar velocities from neutrino emissions.

Correlation between neutrino energy, temperature, and pulsar velocity.

Implications for neutrino properties and supernova dynamics.

Abstract

Recently estimates have been made of the velocities of pulsars produced by the emission of sterile neutrinos during the first 10 seconds and by active neutrinos during the second 10 seconds after a supernova event reaches thermal equilibrium. Neutrinos produced with electrons in the lowest Landau level are emitted in the direction of the magnetic field, and the resulting pulsar velocity depends mainly on the temperature. Using measurements of the neutrino energies emitted from SN1987A, the temperature can be estimated, and from this we estimate the velocity of the resulting pulsar from both active and large mixing-angle sterile neutrinos.